Unable to Start Upgraded Confluence After Adding Jespa NTLM Authenticator Files
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Symptoms
After upgrading Confluence, adding Jespa NTLM Authenticator .jar files (jcifs-x.x.xx.jar and jespa-x.x.xx.jar) to the Confluence installation directory prevents Confluence from starting.
The following appears in the atlassian-confluence.log:
2014-02-25 10:20:15,616 INFO [main] [com.atlassian.confluence.lifecycle] contextInitialized Starting Confluence 5.4.2 [build 4731 based on commit hash 0a2d13ba65b62df25186f4b87e6c642af1792689]
2014-02-25 10:20:18,258 INFO [main] [springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] initWebApplicationContext Root WebApplicationContext: initialization started
2014-02-25 10:20:20,908 ERROR [main] [springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] initWebApplicationContext Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'managerTransactionProxyCreator' defined in class path resource [applicationContext.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Invalid bean name 'javaSimonMonitoringInterceptor' in bean reference for bean property 'interceptorNames' with key [0]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:480)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory$1.run(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:409)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:380)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:264)Cause
The following custom authenticator is used in seraph-config.xml: <authenticator class="org.techtime.confluence.authenticators.JespaAuthenticator"/>
Resolution
Use the supported custom authenticator in
seraph-config.xml:<authenticator class="com.pixelpark.seraph.SSOAuthenticator" />Remove
techtime-confluence-ntlm-x.x-prod.jarfile from the<Confluence-Installation>/libor<Confluence-Installation>/confluence/WEB-INF/libdirectory (if present)